#NowAvailable #Heartache Duet~~ Heartache and Hope by Jay McLean

by Louisa · June 28, 2019

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Heartache and Hope, the first book in Jay McLean’s Heartache Duet is now live
and available in Kindle Unlimited.

Ava Diaz needs saving.

She just doesn’t know it yet.

Just like she doesn’t know a thing about the boy she sits next to on the first day of senior year.

He thinks she’s a brat.

She thinks he’s entitled.

Maybe first impressions don’t always last…

Because Connor Ledger’s about to save her.

He just doesn’t know why.

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Jay McLean is back! This time she brings us the story of Connor and Ava in Heartache and Hope. A story of first loves and first heartbreaks. And all the feels in between.

I can never get enough of Jay McLean’s characters. They are so well-described and tangible you feel as though you know them immediately. As though you can truly understand how they feel and what it is that makes them tick. That you could pick them from the pages of the book and just hope they would be your best friend. It’s this feeling that brings me back to Jay every single time. She builds me a new family with every story or gives me more of my favorites.

“If you need proof that magic exists, I’m right here.”

Ava and Connor are both dealing with their fair share of heartache and obstacles. Especially for teenagers. They are both so driven and decided in their futures, they haven’t stopped to enjoy any bit of high school, let alone have any relationships with anyone until they meet each other. When they realize maybe they do want more out of their lives.

Jay McLean crushes us in this story. It is a duet, so I just know and trust Jay enough as a writer that she will make me whole again. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait long for First and Forever. I can’t wait to see where else she takes Ava and Connor.

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Excerpt:

They look like fireflies. The way the water falls from the sky, illuminated only by the streetlamps.
I stand in the middle of the road, barefoot and barely breathing, my arms out, face to the sky.

I don’t know how I got here.

When I climbed out of my window, the sun was just setting and now… now I’m surrounded by
dark skies and false hope.

I know I should go home.

That I should face my fears and tackle them head-on.

My mind travels the right roads at the right time to get me there, but my heart…

My heart takes me to Connor.

Outside his bedroom window, mud seeps between my toes, and the frigid air creates
goosebumps along my skin. I raise my fist and tap, tap, tap on the glass.

A moment later, a light turns on. And then nothing. I tap again, my heart racing.
The blind lifts and Connor appears, his eyes squinting. It’s clear he’d been asleep, or close to it.
Hair a mess, he’s shirtless, the obvious beginnings of bruises mar parts of his torso, and I look down,
shame filling every part of me. I bite down on my lip as he slides the window up. “Jesus Christ, Ava.
What the hell are you doing?”

His warm palms meet my soaking wet elbows, and then his entire body is cocooning mine,
lifting me off my feet and into his bedroom. My feet land on his soft carpet, and I look down at the mess I’ve made.
“I’m dirty,” I tell him.

Inside and out.

Dirty, dazed and damaged.

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